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...working together on the future of the region, are of great relevance to us, and they are a great way to provide knowledge to students and to the community as a whole.” The keynote speakers, whose speeches will be split up throughout the day, will include Martin M. Werner, the head of Goldman Sachs Latin America and former undersecretary of finance and public credit in the Mexican Treasury; former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; and former Honduran President Ricardo M. Joest. The conference, in which nearly 700 individuals have requested a spot, still has spots open...
That mood eventually settled on Heston. In the '60s he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and after Robert Kennedy's death, he called for gun control. But like many young liberals, he aged into conservatism. In the '80s he became a prime spokesman for right-wing causes and in 1998 the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). At the 2000 NRA convention, he invoked his own Moses, hoisting a rifle above his head and proclaiming that presidential candidate Al Gore could remove the gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands...
Bernanke joins a list of Class Day speakers that includes such notables as Mother Teresa, playwright Arthur Miller, former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King...
...student plates. A girl approached them. “The garden burgers have kind of become a staple of my life,” she complained. The advisory council arrived in Cambridge yesterday afternoon to offer HUDS a third-party review of its performance, according to HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. This year, the council has focused on sustainability issues. The council, which annually surveys HUDS’ operations for a three-day period, is made up of parents, food service operators, and chefs. The council is divided into three subgroups: residential dining, campus restaurants and catering, and marketing, according...
Charlton Heston, the great screen actor who graced sets from the Egypt of the Old Testament to the Planet of the Apes, passed away a few days ago. A notable conservative who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., he would later serve as the president of the National Rifle Association. Before the onset of the Alzheimer’s that claimed his life, Heston was often just a punch line for jokes about Soylent Green and gun nuts, but in truth he was a lot more than that...